About Hutsell Elementary

Hutsell Elementary, which opened in 1978, serves a diverse student group. Its academic success is attributable to a dedicated faculty that works hard to meet the needs of individual children, an effective volunteer and community group of more than 200 and a variety of special programs that serve its diverse population.

Classroom teachers share instructional objectives with special-area teachers (physical education, art, music, technology and media-library) so that lessons in those areas strongly support regular classroom activities.

The HOSTS program (Help One Student to Succeed) involves community members who commit an hour a week to provide one-on-one tutoring for third, fourth and fifth graders whose reading skills need a boost. Younger students receive one-on-one reading assistance through two other reading intervention programs, PRIDE and TRACK.  Children with more advanced reading skills earn recognition through Accelerated Reader, and everyone participates in the DEAR (Drop Everything and Read) time and the Bluebonnet, "Book-It" and Astroworld reading programs.  Students also help produce a half-hour weekly video news program.

Students at Hutsell enjoy a strings program, which teaches interested children in grades 1-5 how to play the violin. The program, which began in 1992 with 50 students, now has more than 90 enrolled. Participants have performed for the school board, at area banks, a local shopping mall, school programs and districtwide activities.

Parents stay in touch with campus happenings through the Parent Teacher Association, the Campus Advisory Team and a monthly newsletter that focuses on student accomplishments, classroom activities, parent involvement opportunities. In addition, school information goes home weekly in the "Tuesday Folder," and the library/media center houses a special parent section.  Hutsell also sponsors grade level orientations, an open house, academic nights, nighttime parent conferences for working parents and six parent academies that focus on topics ranging from phonics and social studies to a schoolwide art night.

Awards and Honors

• National Blue Ribbon School, 2001
• Spirit of Discovery and Imagination Award, Destination Imagination Gulf Coast Regional tournament, 2006
• Value and Design awards for facility renovations, Texas Association of School Administrators and Texas Association of School Boards, 2006
• Recognized by "Just for the Kids" for academic excellence in reading, 2000
• Katy ISD Elementary Teacher of the Year, 2000
• Katy ISD Outstanding First-Year Teacher, 2000
• HOSTS Award for Quality Assurance, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001

School Report Card

2007-08 TAKS Scores

• Grade 3
• Reading: 98.2%
• Math: 85.6%
• Grade 4
• Reading: 89.5%
• Math: 92.4%
• Writing: 99.0%
• Grade 5
• Reading: 99.1%
• Math: 95.5%
• Science: 92.8%
  
  
• 2008 Accountability rating: Exemplary